News of Jerome Jacobson’s diabolical McDonald’s Monopoly scam captivated the Internet earlier this week, and now newer details — or rather, long-forgotten details — of the case are slowly re-emerging. It has recently come to light — again — that the fast food chain was forced to pay out an additional $25 million in prizes to 70 customers in the wake of the scam. As part of his job, he was tasked with transporting the winning game pieces to pre-determined McDonald’s packaging plants and hiding them among the packaging materials. But in 1989, and reportedly just “to see if [he] could do it,” Jacobson gave his brother-in-law a winning game piece worth $25,000 at a family event in Florida. The FBI’s investigation ultimately led to scores of arrests, and resulted in 51 people being indicted in connection with the scheme.

Source: Fox News August 01, 2018 16:07 UTC